ArticleViruses2022
Development of Dog Vaccination Strategies to Maintain Herd Immunity against Rabies.
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- Effectiveness of community-based delivery of mass dog vaccination to prevent rabies: A cluster randomized controlled trial.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Trial
- The vacuum effect in free-roaming dog management: Conceptual foundations, boundary conditions, and One Health implications.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- Implementing mass dog rabies vaccination through a community-based continuous approach: A socio-anthropological process evaluation.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Barriers to dog bite case management and dog rabies vaccination in Soroti district, Uganda.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Rabies Post Exposure Vaccine Effectiveness: A Retrospective Case-Control Study in Amhara Region, Ethiopia.Scientifica · 2026Article
- Framing effects of health education materials on rural public intention for dog vaccination against rabies in China.BMC veterinary research · 2025Article
- Exploring Global Strategies to Combat Rabies: Addressing Limitations and Enhancing Effectiveness.Veterinary medicine and science · 2025Review
- Improved effectiveness of vaccination campaigns against rabies by reducing spatial heterogeneity in coverage.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Infection and Prevention of Rabies Viruses.Microorganisms · 2025Review
- Optimal Control Theory Applied to Rabies Epidemiological Model with Time-dependent Vaccination in Davao City, Mindanao Island, Philippines.Acta medica Philippina · 2025Article
- Integrating a community-based continuous mass dog vaccination delivery strategy into the veterinary system of Tanzania: A process evaluation using normalization process theory.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Article
- Development, feasibility and potential effectiveness of community-based continuous mass dog vaccination delivery strategies: Lessons for optimization and replication.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
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- Special Issue "Innovative Techniques and Approaches in the Control and Prevention of Rabies Virus".Viruses · 2022Article
- Participation in mass dog vaccination campaigns in Tanzania: Benefits of community engagement.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Human rabies can be prevented through mass dog vaccination campaigns; however, in rabies endemic countries, pulsed central point campaigns do not always achieve the recommended coverage of 70%. This study describes the development of a novel approach to sustain high coverage based on decentralized and continuous vaccination delivery. A rabies vaccination campaign was conducted across 12 wards in the Mara region, Tanzania to test this approach. Household surveys were used to obtain data on vaccination coverage as well as factors influencing dog vaccination. A total 17,571 dogs were vaccinated, 2654 using routine central point delivery and 14,917 dogs using one of three strategies of decentralized continuous vaccination. One month after the first vaccination campaign, coverage in areas receiving decentralized vaccinations was higher (64.1, 95% Confidence Intervals (CIs) 62.1-66%) than in areas receiving pulsed vaccinations (35.9%, 95% CIs 32.6-39.5%). Follow-up surveys 10 months later showed that vaccination coverage in areas receiving decentralized vaccinations remained on average over 60% (60.7%, 95% CIs 58.5-62.8%) and much higher than in villages receiving pulsed vaccinations where coverage was on average 32.1% (95% CIs 28.8-35.6%). We conclude that decentralized continuous dog vaccination strategies have the potential to improve vaccination coverage and maintain herd immunity against rabies.
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